Overwhelming majority of Americans say race relations have not improved under President Obama: Do you agree?

Nearly 9 in 10 Americans said race relations have not improved under President Barack Obama, a new poll shows.

The New York Times-CBS poll shows 87 percent said either race relations have stayed the same or gotten worse under Obama, the country's first African-American president. Only one in 10 said race relations improved under Obama.

The poll was conducted just as unrest in Ferguson, Missouri over the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager focused attention on the status of race relations in the country.

The dissatisfaction over relations was split among the races: 59 percent of black people and 50 percent of white people said race relations have stayed the same under Obama. Forty percent of white people believe relations have gotten worse, a figure almost twice that of blacks.

While the national view of race relations isn't good, most people felt positively about their own community. Of those responding, 78 percent said they thought race relations were good in their own community, compared to 18 percent who said they were generally bad.